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The Presidenl's

AAessoge

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Focus On:

Office of lnstruction

lnsider's View ofBob Loitfellner

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From the ChoirEmployee

Development

Committee

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DeportmentolDevelopments

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The oudit wos performed by Peter

Lonswoy, director of odmissions ondrecords ot Rock Volley College in

Rockford, who gove the office rovereviews. Bruce Bohrer, director ofodmissions, soys, "Overoll, he wos veryimpressed with the operotion. He wosporticulody impressed with our sioff ondits dedicotion ond professionolism."

Following ICCB guldehnes, Lonswoy

wos osked lo look ot lhe mission of the

oreo ond its strengths ond weoknesses;

evoluote the focilities, equipment,supplies ond stoff; ond crltique ontici-poted chonges during fie next fiveyeors. He wos olso osked to express

ony concerns he felt worronled further

study.

ln oddition io lhe sloff, Lonswoy cited

the office's two new publicotions os

morketing winners. "Perspeclives," o

newsleiler distributed to high schooi

students--complete with its neon

Admissions OfftCC

Receiues Raae RearcaJS

As port of ils response to the ICCBrequirement thot oll community collegesoudit their progroms ond services everyfive yeors, he Admissions Office set up

on internol peer review on Moy 30.

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A Publicotion lor Ernplqpes of Wlliom Rotney Horper College

Volure 5, NumberZ Augurf, 1990

grophics (designed by Mike Knudsen!-ond "Mom, Dod...Hove You Done Your

Homework?" o brochure prepored forporents of prospective students (designed by Mork Steffen|, were recog-

nized os excellent pieces. Both pieceswere wrilten by Rochelle Corso of the

Admissions Office.

Lonswoy wos olso impressed with the

NAPS computer progrom thot kocks newond prospective siudents ond cited lhedeporlment's recruitment octivities,student ombossodor progrom, extendedoffice hours ond use of progrom brochures os slrengths.

He expressed concern for the limitedomount of office spoce in view of both

the College's increosed enrollment ondthe procedures necessory to meet the

new ICCB 1993 processing requiremenls ond suggesbd minor internol

recordkeeping chonges.

"We ore pleosed thot Pefe's reoclion loour operotion wos so fovoroble. lt isolwoys nice when o colleogue-especiolly one whose opinion yourespect-hos high regord for whot you'redoing," responded BohrerReiirees Corner

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The President'sMessage

This aticle is o continuotion of Presidenl

Thompson's orlicle in the July lnsider

during which the progress on lhel989'l99l biennolgmls wos discussed.

FOCUS II : FACULTY,/STAFF

PIANNING

Goql: Continue employeedevelopment progroms qndencouroge oll employees toporticipole in both inhouse qndexlernol progrqms.

See From the Choir orticle on poge 5.

Goql: Develop ond implemento plon of professionol develop-menl regording odministrotivecomputing for members of theusers committee, users in-volved in computer proiects,the Executive Council, ond theComputer Services sroff byspring, 199O.

This gool orose from o need to troin

people ot oll levels in lhe orgonizotionto understond ond employ the most

effective computer technology in

performing their responslbilities. This

gool is port of the writlen plons

developed for odminislrolive comput-

ing, ocodemic computing ond network-

ing. Defining specific processes ond

implemenlotion ore plonned for next

yeor.

Gool: lndividuol ond groupemployee volunleers will beincluded in the vision plonningprocess rhor will be inirioted inthe foll of t 989.

Employees volunteered enthusioslicolly

for lhe vorious tosks thot were vilol

componenls of the vision plonning

process. There ore I 09 stoff volunleers

currently involved in vorious ospects ofihe preferred future process.

Gool: Appropriore sroff willporticipote ond provide input tothe qrchitects in rhe specificotionond design phose of rhe spoceplonning progrom.

An integrol port of fie new construclion

ond renovotion progrom involves

meetings between lhe orchitects ondoppropriote stoff so lhot necessory input

is provided in lhe specificolion ond

design phose. The process hos slorted

with the performing orls cenier. Since this

is o complex structure lhot requires o

greot deol of forword plonning, some

octivities were iniliobd prior to finol

ociion by the stote regording funding.

Appropriote foculty ond stoff ore octively

involved ond will continue to be involved

ln oll phoses of thls project. Key sloff

members representing vorious oreos lo

be offected by the tolol construction ond

renovotion proiect hove hod meetings

with lhe orchilect. They wlll continue to

work closely with the orchitecls ond the

Executive Council ofter funding is

ossured.

Gool: Develop q progrom orseries of progroms by foll ofI99O which focus employeeoltention on the mission, phi-losophy ond imoge of rhe Col-lege os well os on q serwice qndsfudent success orienlolion.

An Orientolion Tosk Force composed qf

representotives from the lhree sloff

development groups hos developed ocomprehensive orienlolion progrom fornew stoff thot includes on initiolwel-come, follow-up sessions, ond o peer-

po rtnershi p prog ro m.The orientotionprogrom is olmost complele.

Gool: Complete the writing ofthe offirmqlive qction plon ondoppoint by foll of t989 rheoffirmotive oclion committeewhich would hove lhe responsi-bility of overseeing the imple-mentolion of rhe offirmotiveqclion plon.

The offirmotive oclion committee wos

opproved ond members nomed by the

4Cs. Also, the director of personnel hos

completed o leniolive offirmotive ociionplon whlch will be reviewed by lhe

newly oppointed offirmotive oction

committee. This gool will continue.

ELPresident Thompson's finol comme.

obout progress on lhe bienniol gools

will be published in the September

lnsider.

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INSIDER'S VIEWOF

Bob LoitfellnerBob Loitfellner is proof thot hord workpoys off. Nine ond oneholf yeors ogohe wos hired os o night custodion ot

Horper ond in four yeors hod worked his

woy up b foremon of the mointenoncedeportment. 'My experience shows wholhonesty ond hord work con occomplish,"he exploins.

But hls success is olso o resuh of his

ottitude loword his lob ond Horper. "Our

deportment is o service deportment ond

we're here to serve the College," he soys,

I odds thot the mointenonce deport-tt i, in chorge of everyrhing ot ihe

College except lhe grounds, cleoning,heoting ond oir condilioning. The

deportment employs lhree pointers, lwocobinetmokers, one keymon, ond six

electricions, plumbers ond corpenlers.

ln prioritizing work, Loitfellner soys hls flrst

concern is generol sofefy, followed by the

students, stoff, building mointenonce ond

pointing, The stoff works on everylhingfrom repoiring pencil shorpeners ond

choirs to moinloining the telephone

Born: Milwoukee, Wisconsin

Educotion: Woshington HighSchool, MikoukeeUniversity of Wisconsin, Milwoukee

Fomily: Wife, Corol; doughter,Suson, Glen Ellyn; son, Jeffrey, Florido

lnteresls: Coin collecling, rocquet-

boll, roising Norwegion Elkhounds

Best odvice my porents gqveme: Be honest ond work hord.

lf rime ond money were not oproblem: l'd buy on oirplone.

I would like ro lecrrn: How toflv.

One rhing lte leorned in life:ls to be hoppy ond b help others.

I con'l slqnd: Loziness, or peoplewho don'l like to work.

Fovorite food: Pizzo, popcornond beer

Fovorite movie! Ben Hur

Bob Loitfellner

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EmployeeDeaelopmentCommittee

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lf you hove enioyed the brown bog

lunch presentqtions ond olher employee

development progroms offered here ot

Horper, then the Employee Development Committee hos good news for

you. The commitlee is now looking into

this yeor's offerings ond new ideos

include progroms on monogement

styles, lime monogement ond workploce

communicotion.

The commillee, formolly opproved by

the Council for Coordinotion of CollegeCommiltees (4Cs) 1n Moy, coordinotes

the professionol ond personol develop-

ment octivilies of the stoff. lt ls cochoired by Lindo Alberts ond Lorry

Bielowo.

Before becoming o 4Cs commiltee,

inlerested members orgonized os o tosk

force, selting up focus groups to discuss

development opportunities with employ-

ees of lhe College. From those tolks the

group developed its rotionole.

A queslionnoire wos then sent to stoff

members lo delermine whol iypes ofprogroms were wonled. Since lhe

progrom hos been instituted, odditionolquestionnoires hove olso been senl out

to onolyze eoch of lhe offerings ond

help plon new ones. Alberts soys, "Weskive to meel the needs of the employees ol Horper College ond os lheir

needs ond siluotions chonge, we must

be prepored lo moke odiustments in our

offerings." She odds lhot lhe committee

must remoin flexible to operole e[fi-

ciently.

The commillee is mode up of nine voting

members representing lhe clossified,

service, professionol/technicol, odminis-

trolive ond supervisory/confldeniiol

employees; lhe director of personnel;

the support stolf coordinotor of sloff

development; ond two non-voling

foculty lioisons.

To develop progroms, eoch employee

group plons events oppropriote to the

needs of its members ond communi-

cotes these ideos to lhe employee 'development commillee. Thus, em-

ployee groups ore oble lo poolresources, ovoid dupllcotion ondcoordinote offerings.

ln oddltlon to the progroms being

plonned for thls foll, populor topics in

lhe posl hove included personol

development, com mun icolion styles

ond shess monogement. All offerings

will be onnounced in the Bulletin Boord

ond ore offered free of chorge lo the

Horper sloff.

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FOCUS ON

office ofInstruction

The Offlce of lnstruclion is responsible foroll the educolionol progromming thottokes ploce ot Horper-including notonly the tronsfer progroms, but olso theconlinuing educo-tion, remedioldevelopmentol,coreer ond senior

cilizens progromsoffered by the

College.

Chuck Horringlon,deon of instruction,

rsoys his officedetermines whichclosses run, whichore conceled ondwhich needodditionol sections."Bosicolly this is omonogement iob,"he soys, "ond o lot

of whot we do isdeloilwork."

Horrington soys the College hos seen odecline in coreer progrom enrollment, otrend thot he oilributes to lhe economy."Our coreer progrom enrollments go in

the opposite directionfrom the economy,"he soys. "lf peopleore gelling loid off,our enrollments goup. When theeconomy is strong,enrollments declinebecouse il is eosierto find o ;ob.'

The iob plocementsuccess rote for these

progroms hos beenvery good ondgroduotes con mokegood money in lhesefields. "lt is disop-pointing to know thotindustry hos o needfor coreer progromgroduotes ond thotwe ore hovingdifficulty ottroctingenough sludenls lowell-poying iobs withgood futures,"

Horringlon soys.

Horringlon is looklng forword lo lhe yeoroheod ond hopes to continue mokingimprovemenls in his office ond its lrockingprocedures.

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He odds thot whilethe enrollment of the Decn Ghuck Horringron ond Admin-College is stoble, isfrofive Secrefcryr Kothy Hermreck

there is o trend discuss course offerings for ihe foll

toword increosed semester'

enrollments in the

lronsfer progronrs. Becouse moth ond

English courses ore vitol to these progroms, more seclions of lhese closses

hove been odded. ln oddition, the moth

requirement hos been increosed ond

more molh seclions hove been sched-

f-rlrbd.

lnside Horper

The Foundotlon funded o computcrworkshop durlng lfie summer forHorper foculty members qnd otherteochers of moth. Using Deriveeoftwore, workrhop presenlorJerry Gtynn (left) worke wlth MorhProfessor Bill ft hooley.

D epartmental D eaelopments

Pof Smifh-Pierce, director of corporole services, served os o iudge in the

enlerpreneuriol cotegory for lhe Nolionol Chorloile Dqnstrom Women in Achleve-ment Awords. During the lllinois Work Force's Educotion Conference, AED ChoirPot Mulcrone spoke on "Reseorch: Whot Works ond Why...Or Do We KnowYet?" with Judlth Ponticelle of lhe University of Chicogo...AED stoff members PouloDeeken ond Joon Toomey porticipoted in o study lor odminisiering the Work-ploce Literocy Assessment for lhe Educqtlonol Testing Service...Solly Kozior, signlonguoge choir ond ITP coordinotor, hos been selected os one of eight nolionolporticiponts for troining o ter in s in interpretereducotion. She ond coordinotors of theRegistry of lnterpreters for conference wos co

Professor Befty Hullchoired by lnstructor

ond her husbond, Frederi science fiction-wereinvited to speok to the lmogineering lnierest Group of the Librory ond lnformoiionTechnology Associotion.creolive processes ond i

obout the couple'show into believoble

slories...Our cong ond her husbond,Michqel, on the blrth ofpounds, I2ouncesond

ndo weighed in ot nine

We welcome new employees of Horper who hove storted working during ihe postmonth. lncluded ore Mqrk Mrozinski, lob ossislont, LIB ARTS; Kim GibsonHormon, linguistic speciolist, DSS; Tinq Abel, coshier, BUS SVC,/FIN; LourqRibo, clerk, PLG RES; Sondro Sleworl, librory ossistont l, LRC; MercedesMcGowon, inslructor, TMPS; Allison Possoglio, personnel ossociote, Person-

nel; ond Dennis Conners, vice president of ocodemic offoirs. Tronsfers oncompus include Josn Glover, clerk/typist ll, PEAR; Mory Lelt, secretory l, LS/HS; ond Shqron Morlin, moteriols speciolist, AE/LS. Reclossificotions includeTom Choice, Athletic Acodemic Coordinotor, PEAR, ond Debrq Ruben,microcompuler supporl speciolist, ACA COMP.

We send our condolences to Fronk Vqndever, former supervising dentist for the

Dentol Hygiene progrom ond long-time foculty member, on the deolh of hls wife.

Dr. Thompson ondfellow odministrotorsbqde forewell fo Dcvidltlfilllqms (left) during hislast CommunlcofonrForum on July 23.Willioms' lost doy osvice presidenf ofocqdemic offoirs wosJuly 31, olthough hewill serve on speciolossignment to theCollege until his retire-ment on December l. Acollege retirement porlyis rcheduled for Novem-ber 16.

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Mondoy, August 20First doy of closses

Wednesday, August 29Art exhibitTereso Kromer Porod ondWesley KromerBuildings C ond P

Free

Wednesdoy, Seplember 5lce Creom SociolMojo Kings BondNoonBuilding A Soulh Potio

Free (sundoes, $.25)

Tuesdoy, September I IAbbey NoleshonUnderstonding Eoiing DisordersNoonA241Free

Wednesdoy, September I 2Blood Drive

8:30 om- 3:30 pm

A242French film, lo Leclrice

Building J Theotre

Z:30 pm

Free

Thursdoy, September 13

Orion Chomber Ensemble

1 2:15 pm

P205Free

Solurdoy, Seplember 15ACOA SeminorHorizons of HopeB:00 om-4:00 pm

Buildlng J Theotre

Tuesdoy, September l8Comedy lmprovisotion Workshopwith Second City's Don DePollo

NoonE107Free